Constitutive Phenomenology and Intentional Objects

Abstract

There is, according to Husserl, a radical difference — „die kardinalste, die es uberhaupt gibt“ (Ideas, Vol. I, p. 77) — between the real world and pure consciousness. But a peculiar shift in the way in which this difference was described occurred as early as in the Ideas, Vol. I. In his letter to Husserl from 19181 Roman Ingarden writes: